Karen Faller
Artist Profile

Karen Faller

LOCATION
Madison, Wi
MEDIUM
Mixed Media
FOLLOW
@wanderingwaterstudio

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Karen Faller is a printmaker and mixed-media encaustic painter (painting with beeswax, tree resin & pigments) who incorporates photography, printmaking, paper, and found objects in her art. Originally from Ontario, Canada, and now living in Madison, WI, she studied and worked as a fish and wildlife biologist in Ontario, British Columbia, and New Zealand before working as an artist. Her work interweaves local flora and fauna with the places she’s lived and travelled.

CREATIVE PROCESS

My work is heavily influenced by my love of the outdoors, and the patterns, colors, and changes that can be observed in the natural world. Having had a fairly transitory first 35 years moving from place to place, I grew up associating different plants, animals, landscapes, and seasons with locations and times of my life. Much of my work explores the ideas of belonging and attachment to the places we love and the idea of calling a place 'home'; the connections and associations we form with the geography of nature as we try to hold on or let go of parts of our past, with the passing of time. I often interweave repeated patterns in my paintings and incorporate sewing patterns in the layers of encaustic, tying them to the changing patterns in nature, the weathering of time, and the idea of impermanence.

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